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  2. Phonaesthetics - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] Cacophony is the effect of sounds being perceived as harsh, unpleasant, chaotic, and often discordant; these sounds are perhaps meaningless and jumbled together. [9] This is similar to consonance and dissonance in music, which are pleasant and unpleasant sounds respectively. In poetry, for example, euphony may be used deliberately ...

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike. Euphony –A series of musically pleasant sounds that give the poem a melodious quality, conveying a sense of harmony to the reader.

  4. Caesura - Wikipedia

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    This makes the caesura arguably more important to the Old English verse than it was to Latin or Greek poetry. In Latin or Greek poetry, the caesura could be suppressed for effect in any line. In the alliterative verse that is shared by most of the oldest Germanic languages, the caesura is an ever-present and necessary part of the verse form itself.

  5. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5] "Macondo" Óscar Chávez: One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez: Based on the fictional town Macondo, used by Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude and other of his works. [54] "Martin Eden ...

  6. Portal:Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects intos ...

  7. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...

  8. Sound poetry - Wikipedia

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    Sound poetry evolved into visual poetry and concrete poetry, two forms based in visual arts issues although the sound images are always very compelling in them.Later on, with the development of the magnetic tape recorder, sound poetry evolved thanks to the upcoming of the concrete music movement at the end of the 1940s.

  9. Couplet - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil language has a rich and refined grammar for couplet poetry, and distichs in Tamil poetry follow the venpa metre. [8] One of the most notable examples of Tamil couplet poetry is the ancient Tamil moral text of the Tirukkural , which contains a total of 1330 couplets written in the kural venpa metre from which the title of the work was ...